[Bell System Logo]

The first telephone

exchange in the State of Georgia

was established at

Augusta, Georgia

August 1, 1879

With seventy eight subscribers,

this was only three years after

Alexander Graham Bell

invented the telephone.

This plaque

presented by

Dixie Chapter

Telephone Pioneers of America

March 25,1953

Marker is on Greene St near 10th St, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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